{"product_id":"9780387903484","title":"A Russian Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the year 1889 Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, Profes­ sor of Mathematics at the University of Skholm, pub­ lished her recollections of growing up in mid-nineteenth century Russia. Professor Kovalevskaya was already an international celebrity, and partly for the wrong reasons: less as the distinguished mathematician she actually was than as a \"mathematical lady\"-a bizarre but fascinating phenomenon.* Her book was an immediate success. She had written it in Russian, but its first publication was a translation into Swedish, the language of her adopted homeland, where it appeared thinly disguised as a novel under the title From Russian Ltfe: the Rajevski Sisters (Sonja Kovalevsky. Ur ryska lifvet. Systrarna Rajevski. Heggstrom, 1889). In the following year the book came out in Russia in two *\"My gifted Mathematical Assistant Mr. Hammond exclaimed ... 'Why, this is the first handsome mathematical lady I have ever seen!'\" Letter to S. V. Kovalevskaya from].]. Sylvester, Professor of Mathe­ matics, New College, Oxford, Dec. 25, 1886.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049993814256,"sku":"9780387903484","price":119.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780387903484_p0.jpg?v=1763695833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780387903484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}